Sony has decided to acquire the central stand at the Consumer Electronic Show (CES) that will take place in January next year in Las Vegas. Ok…that would seem rather normal…except for the fact that the stand will have 12,000 sq. feet (aprox 3660 square meters). That’s a lot. Time to take away the X360 thunder.

I’m so gonna be there for that.

Oh, so anyway, just finished a nice 15 hour workday. We gave away 10 XBOX 360’s! It was very exciting. But I’m oh so very tired now. And then I tried to order a DVR from Comcast, and they put me in some stupid chat thing, and then the stupid woman didn’t speak to me so I left, and then my order was cancelled. Asshats.

I would have gotten TiVo, but I don’t have a phone line. ASSHATS! I give up, I’m going to bed.

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I had the opportunity to play some XBOX 360 yesterday. I didn’t have time to really sit down and get to know the games that were available, but here is a quick rundown:

Condemned: Criminal Origins – OK. This game is pretty cool for the first 30 minutes. A first-person shooter mixed in with some CSI elements. However, I can see it easily deteriorating into a GTA syndrome – I may only want to play to see how incredibly violent I can become. Here’s the Gamespot review. Some of the missions, like finding 5 dead birds, seemed kind of rediculous (what are they trying to stop, bird flu?). But for the fact that you can make most objects available to you killing machines (a subway sign, pipes off the wall, a school desk), I’d probably tire of killing the same deranged low-lifes over and over. Creepy, but repetitive.

NBA 2006 – I hate sports games. I hate them because I don’t understand sports, so it makes it hard for me to figure out what I’m supposed to be doing. Wait, by that logic someone could say “Oh, and you have personal experience slaying dragons and crafting leather armor?” Just shut up.

Need for Speed: Most Wanted – I didn’t get to actually play this one, but it looks frickin’ awesome. Especially on a really, really, really big TV. Someone with me said “This doesn’t look all that different from a regular XBOX,” but I have to disagree.

Ok, so that’s my little breakdown. It looks promising, but I’m still torn between PS3 and XBOX 360. Obviously, I haven’t played the PS3 yet. And I hate Sony now. Only time will tell.

I was sent an email this morning, with the subject line “You’re famous!” Always good to grab my attention… this was the link that followed.

I was in a bar last week (a real one, the kind where you can drink without using a forward slash) with a World of Warcraft fan. We were discussing the upcoming G.A.M.E. event and how she wanted to volunteer in order to get in. She almost caught herself before saying, “I would do it just for the experience points.” Nice. I explained to her that there are three things I will never try: heroin, chicken-fried steak, and World of Warcraft. My justification is that I’m afraid I’d like them so much that they would eventually lead to my death.

HAHA! Oh god. I need a freaking life.

Also, I cancelled my Friendster account today, because they fired one of their employees for blogging. This is an old story, but one that I just caught wind of for whatever reason. And I don’t like it one bit.

[09:38] john: veronica, if i know you as well as i think i know you, and with how obsessive you get when it comes to video games, you will end up dead or something if you play this game
[09:39] veronica: it’s too late, i’ve already started
[09:39] john: you will drive yourself insane

Bring it on.